Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor's main goal is to do what no beach volleyball team has done win back-to-back gold medals. In order to do that, they changed coaches, broke down their game to the basics, started retooling some of their skills and, maybe just as important, are working on communicating better on and off the court.

Software filters work much better than a 1998 federal law designed to keep pornography away from children on the Internet, a federal judge ruled Thursday in striking down the measure on free-speech grounds.

One man was beaten so severely his teeth poked through the skin of his face. Another was clubbed with a ballpeen hammer. A third, shot three times in the chest, was found dead in a Snohomish County ravine by a man collecting bottles.

The third snowstorm in as many weeks barreled into Colorado on Friday, blanketing the Denver area with up to 8 inches of new snow and further hampering efforts to rescue thousands of cattle stranded by last week's blizzard.